Category: World Trip 2006
An epic 153-day world trip visiting twenty-four countries – South Africa; Swaziland; France; England; Belgium; Holland; Germany; Czech Republic; Austria; Switzerland; Italy; Vatican; Monaco; Spain; Finland; Russia; Belarussia; Lithuania; Latvia; Estonia; Canada; USA; Hong Kong; China I traveled between 29 March 2006 and 28 August 2006.
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Monday 31 July 2006 Highlights: Gondola Mountain Ride, magnificent Chateau Banff, Dinner show A fantastic day of exploring and laughing. I started the day with a gondola (aka cable car) ride to the top of Sulphur Mountain. The view was spectacular of the area and the weather cold at the top. Most…
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Sunday 30 July 2006 Highlights: Walking on the Athabasca Glacier Today I got to walk on a 10,000 year old glacier, the Athabasca Glacier. Just getting to the glacier was an interesting experience riding a ‘bus’ that the use at the North Pole. The glacier as you can imagine is very cold despite this…
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Saturday 29 July 2006 Highlights: Hiking around Edith Clavell Mountain, visiting Jasper National Park A huge day saw a visit to Maligne Lake deep in the Jasper National Park and then a visit to Edith Clavell Mountain. It’s very hard to explain just have stunning Maligne Lake actually is, because it is so remote it…
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Friday 28 July 2006 Highlights: Canadian Rockies After saying good morning to the local squirrels we headed off for Jasper National Park and into the Canadian Rockies. The most impressive place we visited today was Mount Robson which stands at over 12,000 FT. It is so big that you can be very far…
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Thursday 27 July 2006 Highlights: Stanley Park The tour really began today. The group includes 35 people (10 more will join later) with a lot of USA citizens included which is a new experience for me. We started with a bus tour around Vancouver I had seen most of the sights already but the…
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Wednesday 26 July 2006 Highlights: Backpack finally showing up! Getting up at 7 am I found my backpack had been delivered at around 4 am that morning, which made me very happy. British Airways gave me 30 pounds compensation for the delay (about $60 CAD). Walking down to my hotel for the Canadian tour…
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Tuesday 25 July 2006 Highlights: Missing bag, Visiting China Town With only the spare clothes in my day pack and a promise by British Airways my bag will be shuttled to me today I set out to explore Vancouver. Fighting jetlag I visited the Chinese area of the city. Reds, yellows and dragons are…
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Monday 24 July 2006 Highlights: British Airways First Lounge – The amazing shower The very long day beginning at 5.20 am in the morning. I walked to the Finnair airport bus which got me to the airport at around 6.30 am. Using the Finnair lounge I had my first shower of the day (not…
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Sunday 23 July 2006 Highlights: Suomenlinna Island, Lutheran Cathedral My last full day in Europe but an early night is necessary due to my morning plane tomorrow and the need for some sleep due to something like a 30 hour day. I decide very early on to visit the Suomenlinna Island which is a former…
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Saturday 22 July 2006 Highlights: Finland Parliament building This was the last day the Trafalgar tour so I really took advance of the ‘free included breakfast’ helping myself to a large hot breakfast. I even liberated some oranges against the rules; well this place seems to be making a mint 🙂 I checked out as…
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